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This week on The Arts Hour with Nikki Bedi, Oscar winning veteran actor Al Pacino, who appears on the small screen in big new Amazon series Hunters - tells us about his enduring love of the theatre.

Mother of magical realism, Chilean novelist Isabel Allende, has sold 74m books across the world. She muses on her new work A Long Petal of the Sea and the importance of letter writing.

New Zealand director Taika Waititi’s film about a young boy in Nazi Germany, Jojo Rabbit, has just won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Waititi himself plays Hitler who is Jojo’s imaginary friend – he tells us about the experience.

Bollywood star Saif Ali Khan on playing similar roles decades apart in a long career and his new film Jawaani Jaaneman.

Composer Alexis Smith from The Flight, creates music for hit video games like Horizon Zero Dawn and Assasins Creed Odyssey. He explains how he uses real sounds to soundtrack unreal worlds.

Siti Amina Omar is a singer and oud player from Zanzibar, she reveals the cultural and societal restrictions she fought in order to pursue her music.

Nikki’s guests in the studio are composer, artist and sound sculptor Mira Calix, who is putting together a programme of her compositions on an environmental theme, and film critic Anil Sinanan.

Photo: Al Pacino as Meyer Offerman in 'Hunters'
Credit: Amazon Studios